@ALBUM: Doing the Dishes (2008)


@SONG: No Man's Land

The Queen of the Lowlands
Is sleepless tonight
She's walking on marble floors
In the pale moonlight

The oil-man from Texas
Is still pulling the strings
In this palace of puppets
Of my paper King

No one will sleep
In the fields of Verdun
No one will finish/end
What they just had begun

I'm in a man-hole
I'm looking for light
And I wonder why the German philosophers
And the English poets always fight

No man's land - No man's land

Did you see Elvis in his kitchen tonight
He's got the Memphis blues
And a real strong appetite
He's walking through Graceland
In a black leather suit
He's smelling home cooking
... It's only the river

Elena Ceauşescu is still wide awake
She's counting her shoes
And she knows that she made a mistake
So let's start again - the night is still young
The voices outside are singing a folk song

Louis XIV, he cannot sleep
He's walking through the corridors
Of his funky antique

He got 300 pillows and 400 chairs
He is counting his clocks
Can you hear them ticking
Tic toc tic toc tic toc


@SONG: Toe In The Water

You hear the birds in my italic forest
I smell the roses in your cement garden
You snow around - around my head tomorrow
I rain upon - upon your feet in sorrow

Toe in the water

You walk on mud along a thirsty river
I see the trees - I hear the leaves that shiver
The snowy owl will fly around your silence
Today is light - tomorrow will be darkness

You whisper something in my ear
The words I cannot hear
There's a hole in a tree
Somebody is watching me
The Big Black Woodpecker

The lake with circles - circles like a necklace
I see your face I see a million freckles
My Red-spotted Flycatcher
You drink the lake - I eat a Lesser Whitethroat

Toe in the water - River of dreams


@SONG: The Great Caruso

1906 The morning after Carmen
The earth was shaking
The sky was almost burning
San Francisco - I am The Great Caruso
My bloodred suite and lits-jumeaux are turning

When I look at my life
My life is a dream - Let me sleep

Then I woke up and
I am in the middle of the ocean on an island
With a volcano - smoking my last cigarette
There are not many trees and a windy beach
Big black rocks and a lot of mean dogs around me

The sun comes up
The sun goes down - Somewhere

A man comes up to me
He says "Where are you going?"
I say "I am going nowhere"

When my life is a dream
Don't wake me up - Let me sleep


@SONG: The Flowers

She is walking through the snowflakes
On the churchyard
With a small bunch of flowers in her hand
She's putting it on a gravestone
Of a young soldier
Who died on the desert sand

It hurts It hurts
The song in her head where the flowers are gone
And the young men are dead and the girls are alone
With the hours

Life is floating away in a small red river
On the desert sand
A river of pictures - a movie of 20 years is flowing
Through his head

The flowers - Where are the flowers
She was picking alone in a meadow
A summer a long time ago

Life was endless - A desert An ocean

The host of a talk show is laughing-laughing
People talk about the interior of their houses and how
They want to change it

The Apache wandered lonely as a cloud
O'r vales and hills
When all at once he saw a crowd
A host of red poppies in a field

The flowers - Where are the flowers
She was picking alone in a meadow
A summer a long time ago
Life was endless - A desert - An ocean

The flowers - Where are the flowers
The hours - The years - Where are the flowers

Sometimes you dream the desert is an ocean
You dive deeper and deeper - you cannot find him


@SONG: In Dutch Fields

In Dutch fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses - row by row
We are the dead - Short days ago
We lived - felt dawn - saw sunset glow
Loved - and were loved - and now we lie
In Dutch fields

We shall not sleep - though poppies grow
In Dutch fields


@SONG: Five & Dime

I am waiting in the hospital
With my mother's eyes
There is a song on the radio
That I don't wanna hear

I am turning pages of a magazine
With my father's hand
There are pictures in the magazine

Come back to the Five and Dime
Jimmy Dean - Jimmy Dean
I am looking with my mother's eyes
I'm seeing things I've never seen

No - I don't wanna listen - And I don't wanna try
I am waiting in the hospital
With my mother's eyes


@SONG: Lenin And The Wounded Angel

I'm walking on the thin ice of the lake
It's almost spring - It will melt and break
The holes are getting bigger
Is this a déjà vu - a prophecy - a joke
The skyline with the factories
The black sky with the smoke
My brains inside a cap of fur
My thoughts are burning like a fire
It's important to bring electricity
To all the corners of the country
To fight disease and poverty

There's a hand on my shoulder
A hand on my head
"How do you do?" - His face is red and blue
"My name is Josef - Just for you"
I can hear your whispering voice again
I cannot speak your name

Tampere - Home of the Holy Smoke
The bricks and stones - My prison
My homesick home

In the distance on a snowy road
Two boys are carrying a precious load

An Angel with a wounded wing
The younger boy is wearing a hat
The other a small brown jacket
He's turning his head - he's looking at me
I can see his worried eyes again
I can feel her hidden pain

Drops of blood are falling on the snow
Like cherries on a table cloth
In her hand she's holding a small bunch of flowers
They bring her to the Blind Girls' School
Where the wooden rooms are always dark
In corridors with rippled tiles
Small shoes are whispering


@SONG: Cowboys & Indians

I thought that I saw you in the last train
With a plastic white fork in your hand
Your teeth - your elbows - your shoulders
Your mouth and your eyes

You saw me standing on a platform
One second with 24 frames
I was gone with the last letter of your name
When we were looking - only looking at the sky
When we were cowboys and indians
Waving goodbye

My dream fell into pieces
It's difficult to paint a horse
And your sister said - "There's no Wild West"
That's when I needed more time
When we were cowboys and indians
Waiting in line

"Hope is a strange invention" - Emily said
The words fell like rain - On our head


@SONG: I’m A Fly

I'm a fly in your eye
I'm a bee on your knee
I'm a moth in your mouth - I'm a fly
I'm a worm in your shoe
I'm a brick in your wall
I'm a cloud in your sky - I'm a fly
I'm a car on your road
I'm a ship on your hip
I'm a bird on your head
I'm a tree on your knee - I'm a fly
I'm a spider inside her
I'm a nit in your hair
I'm a flea you can't see
I'm a thing, a ding-ding - I'm a fly
I'm a door in your heart
I'm a floor in your house
I'm a fish in your lake - I'm a fly
I'm a hat on your head
I'm a tree on your knee
I'm a lock in your door
I'm a cloud in your sky - I'm a fly
I'm a girl with a pearl
I'm a boy with a toy
I'm a man with a can - I'm a fly


@SONG: Mrs. Sunlight

Mrs. Sunlight is walking on the bright side
She's dreaming of the moonlight in her eyes
I wish I had fever
I wish I had smallpox or worse
Then I needed love and care
Of my sweet nurse

Mrs. Sunlight dances
Under the circumstances

She likes 'Rome was not built in one day'
Romances

Mrs. Sunlight - Soap
Is giving me a little hope
Climbing up the ladder of rope

Kissing the moon - Jumping the broom

Sundays in winter
Mondays of darkness
She got a fire inside her house
We look at the snowflakes
Outside the window
She turns the pages of a cookbook

Mr. Moonlight is living
On the dark side
Driving through the red light

Looking for some money
I wish I had a shoulder to cry on
I wish I had raindrops in my eyes
I wish I had windows in my heart

Da dum da dum da dum da dum
They do they do the dishes


@SONG: Moondog

Moon dog
Give me fire - Give me water
From your wishing well

Moon dog
Give me a rock - Give me a stone
From your home sweet home

Moon dog
Julie and John - What have you done
When the moon struck one

It's a dirty old road
In a dirty old town

Moon dog
Give me rain - Give me shine
From your old coal mine

Moon dog
Sweet heart - Furry man
When the moon struck one

It's a dirty old game
And I am feeling ashamed

Moon dog
Give me money - Give me home
From your hollow tree

Moon dog
Give me a hand - Give me love
From your broken heart


@SONG: Heart

Sometimes life is so simple
Sometimes it seems so hard
While in the end it doesn't matter
Simple or hard
Bring it down to the heart of the matter
Brind it down to a matter of - heart

I walk up to my piano
Lay my hand on the keys
Got no idea what is pending here
Turn off my brain - new ideas
Always come from the heart of the matter
Let them come as a matter of - heart

Sometimes it's dark in the daytime
Sometimes it's light at night
It's not always pure logic

What makes this world go round
What makes this world go spinning around

Why are we tossing and turning around

It's a law of nature
Every rose comes with a sting
With one to six on my dice I don't know
What the next minute brings
What will the next minute bring next
What will the next, next minute bring

Sometimes I talk with the angels
Sometimes I speak with the birds

You can change this world if you want to
They say - just like you did with the weather
Bring it down to the heart of the matter
All together - with a change of heart

Make it matter - make it better
With a change of - heart


@SONG: Yesterday

Yesterday - I was robbing a bank downtown
I was shooting the halogen ceiling lights
The laminate parquet on the ground
It was funny - there was no money
Crime doesn't pay - I am happy
I am so rich - so rich

Yesterday - I was robbing a gas station
I was shooting the tin cans and the coffee machine
It was a sensation
I was happy - there was no money
Crime doesn't pay - but it is funny
I am so rich - so rich

Yesterday - I was robbing a butcher's shop
I was shooting two medium steaks
And a big lamb chop
They were already dead - So I took the money
Crime pays and it's not funny
I am so sad - so sad


@SONG: Grrr... To You

Take me to great lake Ontario
Walk me to the lighthouse through the falling snow
I was loving you - loving you

Take me to the river where the sirens sing
Listen to the raindrops falling on their skin
I was loving you - loving you

Walk me through the snowflakes of a burning town
Talk to me talk to me when I'm falling down
I was loving you - loving you
I was walking to you - I was loving you

Take me to the zebra of Abbey Road
Hide me in the pockets of your blue raincoat
I was loving you - loving you

Grrr... to you


@SONG: The Twins

Someone was playing a Walker Brothers song
When a ricochetting bullet hit the juke-box
'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine' was stuck in its track
Anymore - Anymore ... and back

Mother "Violet", Jack "the Hat", "Cannonball" Lee
They're all dead - But I'm still living
Brother "Ronnie" - George Cornell - Richard Hart
They all fell - But I'm still standing

The sun goes down in the park
Soon it will be cold and dark around me
Those were the best years of our lives
We were ruling the town
Let's go down to "El Morocco"
Reggie Kray - Will fade away

In our Sunday's best - East End - Wild West
The gang wars and the drinks at the "Blind Beggar"
Under the scrutiny of "Nipper"
A Peer of the Realm unlocks his zipper

Reggie Kray - Will die today